SUMMARY:

• Around 7 plus years of experience as a Cloud/Automation Engineer & Linux Admin in solving complex problems with creative solutions, supporting development, Deployment to operations in different environments.
• Highly experienced in AWS and GCP Cloud platform and its features.
• Experience in Linux Administration, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Release Management and Cloud Implementations.
• Experience on writing playbooks for Ansible and deploying applications using Ansible.
• Highly experienced in AWS features which include EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, AWS Cli, Auto scaling, IAM, S3, and R53.
• Highly experienced in GCP features which include Google Compute engine, Google Storage, VPC, Cloud Load balancing, IAM.
• Application Deployments, Orchestration, Automation using Ansible.
• Experienced in Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates and stacks.
• Experience with migration to AWS/GCP from Datacenter using Velostrata .
• Experience with AWS security tools and services: AWS Security Model, IAM (Identity Access Management), Security Groups, Network ACLs, Encryption, MFA (Multifactor Authentication)
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and cloud infrastructure automation tools Ansible.
• Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs), and Security groups.
• Experience in using Version Control Tools GitHub, Bitbucket & AWS Code commit.
• Experienced in Administration of Production, Development and Test environment’s carrying Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Centos and Solaris servers.
• Strong hands on experience with scripting languages like Python, Powershell and shell scripting.
• Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, Service, Incident and Change Management).
• Application Deployments & Environment configuration using Puppet and Ansible.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Ansible/Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Currently working in the Cloud migrations team to move infrastructure from datacenter to AWS/GCP.
• Worked in Cloud operations for 6 months where responsibilities included resolving the service now tickets received from application team and worked on different project for automation and deployments.
• Involved in application troubleshooting post migration.
• Create changes controls by building T - minus for pre and post deployment.
• Currently using Velostrata for migrating VM’s from on-prem to Cloud.
• Worked for the application team in doing orchestration using Ansible.
• Automated application deployments using Ansible.
• Comfortable in deploying the infrastructure AWS Cloud formation and GCP Deployment manager.
• Currently using Ansible to accomplish post migration deployments which includes the installation of Tanium and stackdriver.
• Involved in Sprint planning, doing the discovery work before migration and preparing the VM for a smoother migration.
• Comfortable using GCP console and gcloud shell.
• Comfortable using Velostrata through GUI and also through powershell.
• Created Velostata runbooks for a smoother migrations.
• Created multi AZ VPC instances.
• Created Roles in AWS for a successful IAM authentication.
• Used JIRA and service as ticketing tool.
• Deployed resources in GCP using the google deplpyment manager and update incase of modifications.
• Installed monitoring agents to activate monitoring using Solarwinds, Stackdriver and New relic.

Confidential - Houston, TX

DevOps/AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created the automated build and deployment process for application, re-engineering setup for better user experience, and leading up to building a continuous integration system for all our products.
• Created and maintained playbooks in Ansible for continuous deployment of resource in site/paging and production environment.
• Designing and implementing fully automated server build management, monitoring and deployment by using technologies like Chef and Ansible.
• Automated the cloud deployments using Ansible, Python (Boto & Fabric) and AWS Cloud Formation Templates.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups.
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups.
• Created triggers, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.
• Worked on CloudFormation to write the templates on AWS.
• Worked on Terraform modules to manage AWS infrastructure.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances.
• Used JIRA as ticketing tool.

Confidential - Milwaukee, WI

Cloud & Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with DevOps team on areas related to Ansible for Cloud Automation.
• Developed build and deploy scripts using Python and UNIX for various products to be hosted on Application Servers.
• Implemented rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, and custom Bash scripts.
• Developed automation framework for Application Deployments to the cloud environments.
• Managed and optimize the Continuous Delivery tools like Jenkins.
• Installed, Configured, Administer Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool.
• Configured Ansible to manage AWS environments and automate the build process for core AMIs used by all application deployments including Autoscaling, and Cloudformation scripts.
• Application Deployments & Environment configuration using Ansible.
• Experience on writing playbooks for Ansible and deploying applications using Ansible
• Worked with JIRA for issue tracking and monitoring.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Analyse and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for Github .
• Experience writing Shell and Python scripts to automate the deployments.
• Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using Ansible.
• Integration of Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline. Currently installed Chef Server and clients to pick up the Build from Jenkins repository and deploy in target environments (Integration, QA, and Production).
• Im ple m e nt ed and build ing to o ls such as Ant/Maven and Gradle in o rde r to aut o m at e and e nhance the overall o pe rati o nal e n v ir o nm e nt.
• Supported 2000+ AWS Cloud instance’s and familiar with Amazon Cloud command line management.
• Maintaining a farm of EC2 instances, ELB’s and RDS.
• Involved in server automation using Puppet for Linux and Solaris servers.
• Experience supporting Puppet environment with 500+ servers and involved in developing manifests.
• Primary duties include Build and Deployment of the java applications onto different environments like Dev, QA, UAT and Prod.

Confidential

Build & Release Engineer / Sr Linux Admin

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Installing, Upgrading, Patching, Configuring and Administrating Red Hat Linux (RHEL).
• Written modules to install and configure Apache, Tomcat and JDK.
• Install and configure Apache, Nginx, Drupal, and WordPress on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances.
• Setup of build scripts, systems and infrastructure to enable build and release process.
• Build C++ and Java files using ANT/MAVEN build tool.
• Managed nexus MAVEN repositories to download the artifacts during the build.
• Configured and managed the Plugin Management and User Management in Jenkins CI Tool.
• Used Jenkins to perform automated Builds and Deployments.
• Experience in managing Version Control Systems GIT and SVN.
• Designing, creating and maintaining GIT repositories to client specifications.
• Worked on Apache and Tomcat servers for hosting web apps.
• Created and maintained Subversion repositories, branches and tags.
• Branching and merging code lines in the Subversion and resolved all the conflicts rose during the merges.
• Hands on writing Shell scripts and Perl scripts for compilation of deployment processes.
• Communicating with all levels of engineering, management, and development, testing teams.
• Used Perl scripts for deployment code on multiple servers.
• Implemented ClearCase and Subversion branching and merging operations for Java Source Code.
• Performed regular builds and deployment of the packages for testing in different environments (DEV, QA, CERT, UAT and PROD).
• Configured the different (Hosted, Proxy and Virtual) repositories based on the requirements to share artifacts with in company.
• Created, deployed and managed Linux and windows VM using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, which includes moving and migrating VM from one cluster to another cluster or within the same cluster.
• Analyzed the Troubleshooting in QA, CERT, UAT and PROD environment issues and supported the Production issues.
• Involved in designing the user interfaces using JSP, Java Script, AJAX, CSS and HTML.
• Used JavaScript and AJAX features for populating the end results in web pages dynamically and for auto completion and validation of the user entered data in the forms.
• Used TFS for version control of the code and configuration files.
• Builds and deploys J2EE application in Web Sphere.
• Involved in Redhat Linux patching using Repository servers and perform Linux kernel upgrade on x86 HW.
• Good knowledge in virtualization using VMWARE ESX 3.5, 4.0 for Redhat Linux and Solaris x 86 platforms.
• Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File System quota on Redhat Linux and Solaris.
• Installed and configured RedHat Linux Kickstart and Solaris jumpstart Servers .
• Experience with Linux/UNIX environments and scripting for Build & Release automation.
• Knowledge on Perl/Unix/Linux shell scripting. Knowledge of operating system, network, and compiler concepts.